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Abstract Challenges are proposed by public services, companies or scientific laboratories, and are based on real-life problems. Participants submit the results of their classification or prediction algorithms, which are then put into competition via the …

Abstract Statistics are essentially based on concentration phenomena, which are consequences of the law of large numbers. We review the weak law of large numbers and the consistency of a parameter estimator. The lecture introduces the estimation of the …

Xavier Piechaczyk Xavier Piechaczyk has been Chairman of the Executive Board of RTE since September 1 , 2020, for a five-year term. Trained as an engineer, he has spent his entire career in the public sector. He was advisor to Prime Minister Jean Marc …

Decarbonizationists and techno-optimists differ radically in their assessment of the capacity of science to massively reduce the costs of decarbonizing our economies. Should we trust scientific progress and delay our efforts until low-cost decarbonization …

Linguistic spotting of arguments Artificial intelligence and political discourse. The case of Emmanuel Macron (2017-2021) Computers - in this case, artificial intelligence - can be of great service to social sciences and humanities - in this case, the …

Abstract It's the energy we weren't expecting, the one that weighed practically nothing just a decade ago, but which has blossomed and grown exponentially in the early 21st century. It's photovoltaic solar energy, generated by the transformation of …

Genius is a particularly elusive term, whose origins date back to antiquity, through a variety of terminologies (Greek daemon , Latin ingenium and genius , not to mention Arabic djinn ) and multiple uses, giving the term a plurality of meanings and latent …